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Our COMPREHENSIVE hierarchy of needs reflects our belief that
physical, medical, mental, financial, educational, emotional and
spiritual needs must all be addressed in order for a permanent change
and individual success is possible. Individual support and a variety of
services are offered including but not limited to: transportation,
counseling, legal advocacy, educational support, job skills training,
nutritional and parenting classes, mentoring and friendship. After care
needs are addressed. Services are available to those in the community
that do not need room and board but are in need of other support.
We offer a healing atmosphere, in
which our residents gain inner strength, build self-esteem, explore
options, and establish a life free of violence, and being without a
home.
The Community Welcome House is Coweta County's Counsel on Domestic Violence.
We serve a diverse population. We acknowledge our residents are the experts on their life. We acknowledge that healing the scars of domestic violence may take a life time. The Community Welcome House is a private non-profit 501 (C)3 program. Our program is sustained by financial and in-kind donations from those that understand and want to stop the violence.
Our purpose is to stop the violence. We do this by education to the societal crime of domestic violence. It reaches out into the community. It effects the victim, the family, and the job place. It is a shameful silent crime. Our dating teens experience it. By education to the signs of an abusive personality, awareness is raised.
The children in a home where domestic violence lives are the silent victims. Domestic violence is generational. Education will stop the violence.
Community Welcome House is a member of Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence www.gcadv.org
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 The Community
Welcome House was founded to offer a home to a family in crisis. It
offered a residence free of charge while the family got back on their
feet and was able to sustain themselves. CWH evolved into a home for women and children who were fleeing a domestic violent situation
It was incorporated in 1990; then in 1991 received 501(C)3 status.
In 1995, to allow the program
to flourish and provide broader services to a growing number of women
in need, a board of directors was
created and moved the facility to a rented home in the city of Newnan.
In November of 2003 CWH purchased a 6,500 square foot
facility in Coweta County. In February of 2004 CWH relocated to the new
facility. The ultimate goal of the program is to offer the supportive
services needed to ready the residents to rejoin society as self
sufficient, earning a livable wage with the skills needed to make
healthy choices for themselves and their children.
Today the
CWH serves as an emergency and as a transitional facility.
At the time of intake an
individual plan is developed to assist each resident in achieving their
goals. Their ultimate goal will
be to develop the skills necessary to move into a home of their own at
the end of the program.
That process may include job training, GED, life-skills,
financial planning, education, counseling, links to community services,
parenting classes, and aid in finding a home. The residents are
required to abide by "House Rules" during their
stay.
Upon obtaining a job the resident must then contribute 70% of
their earnings to a
"savings program" which she will then receive at the end of the
program. This
fund will provide her with the initial money needed for deposits and
the setting
up of her household.
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